My hopium for Festival in 2025, is that they learned what did and didn't work in 2024 for the game's first year. If they could allocate their budget to getting more people on the team at Harmonix and Rhythm Authors, I think that would help a ton. I get the feeling the Festival team is being spread thin, and Rhythm Authors might be working with incredibly tight deadlines (hence the pad drum chart quality specifically declining). I don't think the game is going away, which is a good thing. But if they want it to succeed, they clearly need more help.
and its kind of ironic too, considering back when they all launched, rocket racing was the one with the 2nd most amount of people, hundreds of thousands behind lego fortnite, while festival had the lowest of the 3 with a *NOTABLY* lower amount of people playing, and now it's effectively the opposite
@@shadowtheheadch0gI think it’s because festival is actually a good free rythm game option, while rocket racing and Lego fortnite are such popular genres that people already have the better pay to play versions 😭🙏
@@amazingmrpig6369eh nah somebody had leaked it would be like Mario kart with blowing people up and stuff😂😂😂 As a unreal player who has been unreal every season including current imma say this, the skill ceiling is insanely high which drives people away immediately There’s to many movement exploits that you are just deep fried the moment the race starts which is like the worse crap to deal with in a freaking racing game lmao It’s definitely possible to hit unreal but you will definitely need guides to do so and learn the exploits if you wanna hit unreal fast lol You can still hit unreal without exploits as I have every season it’s just gunna be an insane up hill battle
_😂😂_ The best part about fortnite, completely unpredictable, like Skbidi toilet (I don't know if that's how you spell it, I forgot how) though it was inevitable I feel like
I don't feel like Hatsune Miku is out of nowhere To me it makes sense, since Hatsune Miku is Japanese voice synthesizer (Hatsune Miku is not ai) and it's Japanese chapter Hatsune Miku is also known for miku rhythm games (project diva series and project sekai) so her coming to festival fits I really hope we will get the song "the instense voice of hatsune miku" since it's popular hard song, and i could see it being a cool chart, suggest checking the song out But yeah, this is just my opinion and i hope they have done the collab well
@@DanRockProductionsi absolutely will This is the season i am most excited about I haven't played a lot of festival because there hasn't been a lot of songs i like (not bad songs, just not for me) so i am really happy And i am just big miku fan so this will be so much fun
Pro-Vocals and Pro-Drums being an option with the new local multiplayer would be such a cool addition. Would be great for casuals, longtime rhythm game fans, karaoke fans, everyone
I hope too. Even with local multiplayer coming to ps and Xbox in season 7 pro vocals and prop drums is totally needed so we won’t have 2 people playing actual instruments then your two other friends just holding controllers
@@DanRockProductions Pro Drums have been confirmed to come out, alongside with Instruments as Backblings or Pickaxes. I hope they come out the next season in two days.
Hopefully Year 2 brings Pro Drums and Pro Vocals. Their recent announcement of local multiplayer is very exciting and it looks to be one step closer to being a legit Rock Band game lol.
the thing that keeps me from really hoping is that they'd have to retroactively add them to EVERY song, and that leaves me uncertain cause.. well there's SO MANY SONGS
on a barely related note, i think i know what i'm going to absolutely WHALE OUT on this tuesday (i may or may not be absolutely addicted to everything hatsune miku)
The game is amazing but I think they need to shine more light on it. Some people believe it or not aren’t even aware it exists or that it’s a Guitar Hero / Rock Band successor. Even saying something like “from the creators of Rock Band” would be good enough to give people an idea of what this mode is.
I have a theory that since we didn’t get the Dr Dre and snoop songs as jam tracks like “next episode” for the snoop season is because there’s going to be a Dr Dre season soon👀
Being a rocket racing player and enjoyer of rocksmith 2014 all I can say is feels bad,Festival guys got something to acknowledge it, we got nothing for the 1 year anniversary and rocksmith studio closed and pushed out a update that broke it.
I want more animations depending on the song. The same 2-3 animations are getting so annoying to me I hate playing guitar on festival mode and my character violently throws their head in circles no matter what song or tempo it’s on 😭😭😭😭
I think the local multiplayer announcement is a step in the right direction for what you're asking for. And Pro Drums/Vocals would also add ALOT more to the game variety. I think its only a matter of time till this game gets some really cool updates
Festival just needs a real shakeup to get some much needed attention and consistent players. I’ve been waiting for a solo jam stage where I can control all four instruments like Fuser or DropMix. That’s the main reason I’ve been collecting Jam Tracks tbh. I’m not sure if we’re ever going to get pro-vocals as that’s not been leaked yet unlike pro drums and some songs just straight up don’t have vocals such as Sandstorm or the Rocket Racing tracks. Unless if they just ignore those tracks, what would they replace a microphone with? Maybe they’re waiting to get that figured out so that they can release both pro-vocals and drums 🤷♂️. Lastly, I really hope we get new animations. The new ones for season 6 are pretty good and more realistic compared to season 1, so hopefully we get more of that to replace the old animations. The crowd animations also need to be completely revamped and have more variety.
Something they really need is a practice mode similar to beat saber where you can skip to a certain part of the song and play from there. I’m tired of having to go through 2-4 minutes of easy stuff just to get a single chance at nailing the solo.
I’m hoping for the disappearance of hatsune miku or the intense voice of hatsune miku, or just any cosmo song since he is my favorite vocaloid producer
Love how I just saw this video and then realised again that they announced local multiplayer for ps and xbox which is amazing. Time to invite the boys over every day just I do hope the support for pro vocals and prop drums happen soon cause I don’t want half my friends playing actual instruments while the others can only play on controller
The thing they need the most is genre variety, practice mode, more professional and dedicated staff to be hired by epic so that the festival community can get good charts and fun songs. Other than that maybe ranked festival so everytime you play the game it felt more rewarding as your rank goes up by getting new songs whether it’s licensed or epic originals
I've heard no one talk about this at all and maybe it's just a me thing, but I noticed midway through this festival season, the ability to use emotes during instrument breaks in songs was disabled. It seems to be this way on all consoles as I tried it on both Xbox and switch. Am I crazy? Is there a setting to fix this? Was this ever announced in patch notes or something?
1 big problem with the game modes is that they have unified the daily quest XP outside of Save the World. Whilst it allows everyone a fair chance to gain XP in the game modes they love, it ends up resulting in Battle Royale being the only game mode where it's worth doing daily quests, especially since Rocket Racing's quests take forever to do (and they wonder why that game mode died).
I'm excited to be able to play together with my siblings in local co-op mode, something that other rhythm games don't allow. I'm really looking forward to it.
That's also a huge downside. Eventually, years from now, people are gonna be unable to access the jam tracks that they've paid for unless they add an offline mode
Festival definitely needs to up their game on the other genre of songs cause we barely have any country. And some of the choices need to be a bit better in some regard cause some songs dont work for this type of mode Also quick question but what do ya think of the Red Hot Chili Pepper songs we got this week?
Rap and modern pop music just largely isn't suited for rhythm gameplay that's engaging The reason Guitar Hero and Rock Band worked so well is because the actual music was conducive to challenging and satisfying charts. The fact that vocals are the only thing remotely engaging thing to play on a lot of these tracks, while lead and bass are just a bunch of sustains, further proves this point
That's one of my favorite features of the later Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, it would be a great feature in Festival as well. I'm sick of seeing the gumball machine and unicorn every time lol
I wish we knew what was going on with Em's licensing thing. His concert premiered the game mode, he has emotes in the game, skins in the game, yet... zero Festival tracks
@@DanRockProductions the rumor currently is that the main reason he hasn't allowed the release of his jam tracks is cause eminem objects to the lipsyncing of his songs by people other than himself. even in guitar hero live you can't see the rapper character singing along
I've actually seen that rumor flying around, and it's really the only thing that makes sense. Such a strange stipulation to have, considering his voice is super iconic, so everyone would KNOW it's him, regardless of what skin is enunciating the lyrics
Its gonna be hilarious if years from now we are gonna have people calling themselves Festival OGs Flexing the nanner jammer and the star aura oh my god😭 Doesnt have much to do with the video itself, but its a thought ive had since the free rewards/ auras havent returned
I just barely got the banana guitar on my acc, then I realized it was my friend's account I was doing since they were busy and I needed XP for them _😭😂_ I really do hope for another fruit themed instrument though!
I see what you mean but to me I still have a lot of fun on Fortnite festival, it’s also just very accessible to be honest. like I own guitar hero games on my Wii but they don’t work as well
Best enjoyment I get out of Festival is playing with a DDR pad as it's easily possible on Hard and under. Since those charts only use 4 lanes and no triple notes until expert, but lift notes are weird as you can't simply move your figures out of the way but you have to move your away from the pad. Vocals are the easiest to play using the least amount of lift notes and drums being the hardest needing a lot of double notes and lifts at the same time so you gotta jump way more. With the other two instruments being in the middle of those two for difficulty.
Honestly I think I see you point about epic not caring but they aren’t giving up when they give up you will know just a look a rocket racing waiting 6 months for a update just to get like 5 new stages
I meant moreso that we've never had Vocaloid representation in FN yet (to my knowledge), so to give her a whole season was random. I'm excited for her season tho, I'm a big Miku fan
I’m quite annoyed with how hard they dropped the ball with Snoop’s jam tracks. There’s only four of them, and three of those are just features. Gin n’ Juice, The Next Episode, Nuthin’ But A G Thang… if they weren’t willing to let a few expletives slide then why choose Snoop Dogg to headline the season? Even clean versions would be fine.
that's how most of the "headliners" are treated besides I think the weeknd, lady gaga and metallica. for the past few seasons the face of the season has barely gotten anything
Don’t wanna be rude, but for your sub genre cash cow of a fortnite mode to recieve this much care and support is more than enough. If I was fan of festival I would recognize the game is far from dead and be grateful. These modes take focus from other modes that are arguably more compelling yet this receives the most support of all sub modes. All modes suffer from spreading epic thin to update all these features and we are so spoiled so I recognize that as a BR fan. I guess I’m just a little salty when it comes to lego fortnite and ballistics, because I love these sub games but they don’t get the same support/ care and don’t feel like an absolute chore when I’m forced to play them to complete a pass. Such linear guitar hero gameplay can only go so far the fact that they can keep that fresh with new songs and new passes for this sub mode is truly impressive and I would be grateful
You see, if it was just Epic themselves working on it, I would agree. But Harmonix, the studio who invented both Guitar Hero and Rock Band are working on it, and with 20 years of experience in the genre they created, I expect more from them
@ Everyone is feeling the starve for content so I hear you, but to have a full dedicated studio to produce for fortnite and doesn’t deliver blows my mind. Festival would thrive and I would be more inclined to play if guitar/ drum/ mic support came around. Also fortnite will always cater to its casual audience more times than not which is so frustrating especially with the time investment you put in and not to mention money. As a super hardcore BR fan we suffer similar problems thousands of wins and like 1K+ skins in my locker playing all 7 years I see it across all modes it feel like they kinda shit in the hands of their most dedicated player base by adding only things that a casual players can enjoy while simultaneously negating/ diminishing the want to get better because either that skill ceiling isn’t raised for a more hardcore fanbase or an item comes out that we exploit for 2 months straight destroying a skilled meta
I have my thoughts for Year 1 of Festival, and it is pretty much solid... until the Karol G which is where things get bumpy. The placement from #1 to #6 are as followed for me; Metallica, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Karol G, Snoop Dogg and The Weeknd. Why did I placed The Weeknd at #6? Well, I was very much a newbie in Fortnite in Festival Season 1 and was more focused on BR than anything else. That sort of changed around late half. Metallica is AWESOME and I got to know and listen to HEAPS more of their songs (I only knew Enter Sandman prior to it). Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish, I love electronic, dance and pop + I have been Just Dance for well over 10 years now. Karol G and Snoop Dogg, yeah... I have issues about them and that is both of these seasons felt stretched and have quite a low Jam Tracks count from these artists. Looking at the Hatsune Miku season, we are um... we are up for another one of them and her season was originally going to be for NewJeans before they decided to hit the lawsuit on their label. Definitely missed opportunities there, but hey... we can play local multiplayer on it now. Would've loved to see Ievan Polkka, PoPiPo or Love Ward - that is the only ones I know of her due to Just Dance. I honestly hate how forced this new season will feel and BR has already gotten wild with Skibidi Toilet, Johnny Silverhand, Baymax and even Godzilla. My thoughts on the Snoop Dogg season, I dislike it. The low Jam Track count from him, and the season being more generic makes it feel like they made this season to pair with CSREMIX. The reason why it worked with Metallica was because it felt PERFECT with the theme of the BR season at the time and it only felt stretched at the end when we got Fall Guys maps here in Fortnite... that definitely flopped in trying to get those Fall Guys players to play Fortnite. Snoop Dogg as a season felt too generic and would've been better to give it to the artist that hasn't got ANY Jam Tracks that we got to play initially from the Big Bang, yes - Eminem. I know he's got like 4 character cosmetics and heaps of other goodies, but what is wrong with one additional one. The Epic employees really seem to like him just as equally as Marshmello. It would've also made the Platinum Event more interesting... but no, we got celebrated with recolours and 3 new songs, and I do not like The Weeknd's one. Dancing in the Flames, yeah I am torching his stage. If we had The Next Episode or Gin & Juice, I would place him a little bit higher than Karol G. If there's one thing I like about his season, it is definitely the ability to see the song title, artist and sections. The Music Pass, done in not even a week. What a weird transition from Event Pass to Season Pass format. There's nothing wrong with Snoop Dogg's music or himself, it is just that his season has done dirty that I would've just picked a different artist. Considering that his season started in the 1 month long CSREMIX... that is an overshadowed failure compare to Metallica. I hope that after Hatsune Miku, we get some good artists. Going from Rock to Latin Pop to Hip-Hop to now J-Pop is quite a genre clashing whiplash. I would LOVE to see Charli XCX, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Katy Perry or even Taylor Swift. Of course, give them a SOLID Jam Tracks count.
I was damn disappointed as well for the anniversary... But the most annoying thing imo is the fact that u can't just practice some parts of charts (ex: paradise city lead solo), I don't want to play the whole song just to get to that specific part.. And the tournament was really cool but we need it also in non-pro mode :p
Why haven’t they brought back the metallica skins because they’ve brought back the other festival icon skins but no Metallica because I was short on v bucks for the metallica puppet master skins and I really wanted the skins
im gonna say something harsh, but im able to elaborate more and have a calm conversation and exchange of arguments if you are respectful im very sorry to say, but festival isn't made for you. it isnt made for people like the lore hero quartet. basically, if you expect this to be Rock Band 5, you will need to wait while Fortnite makes the "My First Rock Band" for everybody else as a company, who wants to get money, making things like pro tracks that only a small handful of players will be able to play thanks for the need for a plastic guitar are more of a bonus, they are focused on getting Joe Battle Royale to play the game, and someone like XxFret_DestroyerxX can be put on a secondary focus you shouldn't expect the game to always cater to rhythm veterans with "the hardest track avaliable on history" there are going to be easy tracks. because for Joe B. R., "oh my god, this song i used to love is in the game, let me play it" if this was a standalone game without the Fortnite branding, id be agreeing with everything you say. but unfortunately, we are talking about Fortnite.
Wow, this is one of the most respectful opinionated responses I've gotten in a long time. I really do appreciate you being respectful, even if I disagree. So first things first, thanks for having a level head, even if you weren't a fan of what I had to say. That genuinely does mean a lot to me. As a result, I'm going to attempt to be as cordial as possible in my response. I totally understand the standpoint of trying to get casuals into the game. The pad charts on Easy to Hard have been perfect for introducing newcomers, and at the end of the day, introducing newcomers into the 5-fret genre is **exactly** what I want to see come from Festival. The more people who play the game and enjoy it, the bigger of a thriving rhythm fanbase we will have, encompassing multiple generations of gamers. I also agree that the game NEEDS easier songs to keep causal/pad only players interested in the game, we're 100% on the same page there. There's an incredibly vocal part of the RB/GH fanbase that dislikes FN Festival specifically because of the lack of difficult heavy metal charts. I've personally been vocal about how much I appreciate they've been able to adapt some of the pop-pier songs into decent Pro-Lead/Bass charts, and at the end of the day, the old RB/GH games aren't going anywhere, so that side of the fanbase can still happily play them. Hell, Rock Band 4 is still being supported to this day! Here's where I disagree: Festival absolutely NEEDS to keep ALL of their audiences in mind here. While, yes, introducing newcomers is the right move overall, Festival indeed needs a hardcore playerbase that's willing to scorechase and compete at levels they're comfortable with. Yes, that includes on difficult, Pro-Lead/Bass charts. To put it simply, Festival has HELLA competition out there, especially in the free-to-play rhythm gaming scene. If you're playing on PC, which a decent chunk of Fest players are, there's Clone Hero, World Tour Definitive, YARG, and countless emulated options such as GH2DX, Rock Band 2 and 3 DX, Rock Band 4 DX, etc. Technically, Harmonix owns the patent on the rhythm highway that all of these fan projects are using, but Harmonix aren't the type to DMCA others, as the entire identity of Guitar Hero itself was ripped off from a Konami arcade game to begin with. If Epic doesn't do anything to keep the hardcore audience interested in Festival, the fanbase will simply go elsewhere, which would set up the chain reaction of people discovering the genre through Fest, then just... leaving to play Clone Hero or YARG. That's not good for sustainability in a playerbase. The hardcore crowd, like me, are also the ones that spend the most amount of money on the game. I've bought every single Festival Pass, barring Karol G's, and own probably over 1/3rd of the Jam Tracks in the game. The casuals who are just dipping their toes into the water to test the genre aren't typically going to spend money like that right out the gate for a mode they're unsure of. At the end of the day, Epic needed to do more for the anniversary, as while the newcomers certainly ate well, the numbers for the hardcore audience likely plummeted after they realized they weren't getting any goodies for staying loyal. Again, thank you for being chill in your response. I hope mine didn't come off like I was being a jerk. I'm just really passionate about this genre, and I wanna see Festival become the best it can be, for everyone!
@@DanRockProductions thanks for also being respectful. I actually thought your first lines were sarcastic because, since English is not my first language, I thought that I may have offended you with something that I couldn't grasp (it's currently midnight 30 here), but closer to the end I saw you were honest. as for a "Joe Battle Royale" myself, I tried dipping into the other f2p/emulated alternatives. what do they fail, at least, partially by the community, it's that charts are not made for gamepad (as someone who uses the standard controller layout on festival, which has been pretty comfortable and nice to play), they are rather expected to be player or on keyboard or on a Riffmaster* whenever I see notes coming in the same time on the first and second lanes, I cry, knowing that my dpad can't go both sides at the same time. besides that, they usually expect you to know how to strum, which I don't. luckily, tap mode exists on the main 2 I tested (YARG and Clone Hero) I would have leaned more into your side of "there are more options" if playing the fan versions was a nice experience for me. since it isn't, I used my egocentric view of "no way casuals are going to drop festival to play something that isn't balanced for them" I can totally see your point in regards for "less veterans, less overall marketing for the mode, less casuals", and I do agree that veterans shouldn't be forgotten. one of the not sent versions for the comment actually were a bit more harsh on the veterans side, but I decided to tone it down since i wanted to be respectful. I think Fortnite is polishing stuff in the background to bring this side of the community better. one of the devs for the new local multiplayer mode said that they have been working on it for over 6 months, so I'm pretty sure they know their audience and what they want, just that they are radio silent about it. they could say something like "we are working on pro drums and practice mode! stay tuned for more details" and the crowd would cheer a lot (lemme reread your comment before finalizing it)
Thank you again for being so kind in your response! Before I bought my NEO S, I used to use the tap modifier and gamepad controls on Clone Hero and YARG. If you wanna give them another shot, try mapping "Up" on the d-pad to "Red Fret." This allows you to hit both red and green at the same time :) So: Left = Green Up = Red X/Square = Yellow Y/Triangle = Blue and finally, B/Circle = Orange This control scheme won't work for EVERY song, sadly, but for lower difficulty songs that use chords, it'll do the trick! I've heard whispers of a pad mode potentially coming to one of these games, but I'm not certain yet sadly
@@DanRockProductions this is actually very simple and yet I haven't really thought about it lol I think I may retry with this configs later (if I do remember lol) I usually also have some stuff with the 3/4/5th lines, but I just injected in my mind that "you will have to use your full thumb. that or go to the shoulder buttons, which you're not used to" so I kinda went with the flow. just hope that charters don't mix things too hard lol
too be fair fortnite will not make as much money if they did stuff for festival because compared to battle royal people aren't in festival so they dont do Anniversary stuff for festival
They have just lowered progress on all of the new modes from 2023, Lego is doing the best, Rocket Racing is sadly super dead and then also Festival is lowering on its updates too
Honestly... Yeah. I liked the Snoop season from an aesthetic and song point of view, but the bugs and lack of care really make me miss the days of Metallica in Festival
Im so mad the Anniversary Weekend Didn't Actually have all The Songs for Free And Not Even Like Oh no Battle pass Songs no they actually didn't Have Item shop Songs Like The Middle Or Catina Band
The Middle got fixed iirc, while the ones that aren’t part of the permanent rotation were left off; at the moment, that’s Streets Ignite, the FNCS songs, Cantina Band, Never Back Down, (after the anniversary) All I Want for Christmas is You, and (confusingly) Poker Face
Festival doesn't receive anything to celebrate its past because it didn't survive and Rocket Racing didn't too because of that Lego Fortnite kinda got a celebration as people receieved Lego Birthday celebration packages saying to open it on their Birthday which teased their next update being storm king related also Fortnite has a celebration of the past with the OG game mode because that was really special for OG'S like me I mean really special
Why didn't you use punctuation in your reply, this is really hard to follow? Festival is very much still alive and well. They have had thousands of concurrent players this season
Rocket racing is pretty much dead, they cancelled support. But festival is still getting updates and new seasons so it’s clearly doing much better. And they did celebrate the past with the one year anniversary stuff and making all the jam tracks accessible for the weekend.
honestly, Festival hasn't been good since season 4. the lack of actual good music has been the main factor, as well as countless bugs due to months of neglect. we haven't had lead animations for like 2 or 3 seasons because they've just been broken. i saw the new lead guitar solo animation a few times before it was just gone in a following update. thinking about taking a break from Festival because we can't even get the bare minimum, let alone what we deserve from a mode like this. where's the on-screen streak counter? why do they use lift notes in idiotic spots sometimes for difficulty instead of what it was intended for? why won't they fix the obscenely increased frequency of the media streaming error? it happens mostly when i play with others and less when i'm solo. why have we gone almost 2 whole seasons without rock, with the exception of a few weeks at the end of this season and last?
I’ll be honest I never liked festival (kinda weird I’m getting recommended this vid then but hi). It was always a little slow, not to mention I’m not a fan of the songs AND prefer 4k gameplay over 5k, so it sucks having the highest difficulty behind it. Also, jam tracks are EXPENSIVE, $5 for one song is horrible. Plus, even if these issues were fixed, there’s not really any incentive to play it over something like Osu or even mobile rhythm games like Arcaea. Honestly though, you mentioned epic seems to have forgotten/stopped caring about festival and I’d argue that for all the modes as they all just seem half baked to me. Hope epic starts doing something about it.
@@Whiskers--5 my monitor caps at 75hz, and with v-sync I typically don't get any frame drops, so I don't mind maxing out the game's graphic settings and making it look pretty if my rig can handle it. I did get drops when the mode first came out last year, but I expected that, and it's been optimized!
Snoop season was such an L. We all hated on Karol G too much. Karol had way more of her songs added than Snoop. Karol had way more earnable free rewards. Wristband quests as well as colour option for a festival pass instrument when you level up past the pass. Snoop had none of that. The theme of rap and hiphop was also thrown quickly out of the window after remix ended. No Dr. Dre? No 50Cent? No Ice Cube? Every rap/hiphop song i requested ended up being an emote instead. A skibidi toilet collab but no Little Big - Skibidi jam track? So many missed opportunities this season as always. Snoop is also the only one without an unreal creative concert since Metallica. "But he was in the Remix live event and part of the Remix battle royale". Yeah okay and all he did was in battle royale be a spaghetti coded npc with reskinned mythics. That did not beat the entirely new Metallica mythic we had in Wrecked. And Metallica also gave free rewards in rocket racing too. And the live event with Snoop doesn't matter because you know who else was in it too? Juice WRLD and he has received way more jam tracks than Snoop as well as free rewards and emotes. They didn't even bother bringing back Tidy like ???. At this point they should've just done a JUICE WRLD Festival season where they would've had a 3rd skin(Festival pass). Speaking of Festival Pass,the snoop ones are a massive L. Can't turn off the cellshading on any of them,especially the instruments. What if you wanna match match them to a purple or yellow skin? Oh well,can't really cuz of cellshading. Honestly the worst set off instruments. I am really not capping when i say this is the worst Festival season. Lack of free rewards,theme thrown out of the window quicker than ever and a bad Festival Pass. At the start of Snoops season I even had the notes freezing bug occur a lot of times which made it impossible to play any songs. Honestly if we dont get an entirely new festival mode next season i wouldn't be surprised if Mikus season is gonna be worse than Karol or Snoop.
@DanRockProductions ddr predates by 9, beatmania predates by 12, arguably the 2 biggest series to launch rhythm games to main stream, gh ofc helped with it being a home console game not an arcade game
@@Jordanisokatnth nearly every barcade in the country has a GH Arcade machine and Guitar Hero was the first video game to reach a billion dollars in sales. Guitar Hero is as much of a rhythm game as OSU or DDR. I say that as a fan of both of those as well
@DanRockProductions yeah but when you talk about "rhythm games" in this video they only play Gutair Hero, Clone Hero, Rock band, etc. That's like of I'm talking about Mario I say "these platformer gamers have figured out an insane clip to save more frames"
@@Jordanisokatnth not all GH fans only play 5-fret. Matter of fact, I've been playing a ton of taiko no tatsujin recently, and I play DDR at every arcade that has it. I don't speak for everyone, but Festival is probably the most accessible rhythm game out there rn. There's also plenty of strategy with highway-based five fret stuff. Watch the tournament, you'll see how important specific phrase squeezing and tactical overdrive use is
Its a good mode but br and lego players never give ut a chance. Also i swear to fucking god you best not be dissing miku she is a fucking queen even if she is just the musician version of a v tuber we mikusicians do not care cuz are world is always growing and its all her's 🩵🥬(i couldnt find an emoji for mikus iconic veggie the LEEK so uhh (lettuce?/cabbage?/spinach?) will have to suffice) if miku was a real huma i would gladley let her rule the world has the global dictator of music (yeah im a miku nerd get over it 🩵🪽)
Absolutely not dissing Miku! I'm a big Vocaloid fan! I was just saying her datamining/leak/announcement kinda came out of nowhere. A very pleasant surprise to be sure tho! Looking forward to buying her Festival Pass :)
They have just lowered progress on all of the new modes from 2023, Lego is doing the best, Rocket Racing is sadly super dead and then also Festival is lowering on its updates too
My hopium for Festival in 2025, is that they learned what did and didn't work in 2024 for the game's first year. If they could allocate their budget to getting more people on the team at Harmonix and Rhythm Authors, I think that would help a ton. I get the feeling the Festival team is being spread thin, and Rhythm Authors might be working with incredibly tight deadlines (hence the pad drum chart quality specifically declining).
I don't think the game is going away, which is a good thing. But if they want it to succeed, they clearly need more help.
Festival fans get 6 seasons and call it dead meanwhile Rocket Racing is literally in the grave
and its kind of ironic too, considering back when they all launched, rocket racing was the one with the 2nd most amount of people, hundreds of thousands behind lego fortnite, while festival had the lowest of the 3 with a *NOTABLY* lower amount of people playing, and now it's effectively the opposite
@@shadowtheheadch0gI think it’s because festival is actually a good free rythm game option, while rocket racing and Lego fortnite are such popular genres that people already have the better pay to play versions 😭🙏
Rocket Racing only had three seasons, and its second season was literally given an extension.
Rocket racing gone so in the grave that they focused on save the world a little bit and save the world has way more players than rocket racing
@@amazingmrpig6369eh nah somebody had leaked it would be like Mario kart with blowing people up and stuff😂😂😂
As a unreal player who has been unreal every season including current imma say this, the skill ceiling is insanely high which drives people away immediately
There’s to many movement exploits that you are just deep fried the moment the race starts which is like the worse crap to deal with in a freaking racing game lmao
It’s definitely possible to hit unreal but you will definitely need guides to do so and learn the exploits if you wanna hit unreal fast lol
You can still hit unreal without exploits as I have every season it’s just gunna be an insane up hill battle
going from a gangster rap season to a vocaloid season is crazy though😭🙏
It's hilarious, I love the genre-whiplash chaos lol
Well, we went from metal to spanish pop between seasons. Anything's possible, and I can't wait.
_😂😂_ The best part about fortnite, completely unpredictable, like Skbidi toilet (I don't know if that's how you spell it, I forgot how) though it was inevitable I feel like
@spennywennyYOU youtube user @spennywenny are NEXT👀
Well the game season has a more Asian theme so it was either that or kpop
I don't feel like Hatsune Miku is out of nowhere
To me it makes sense, since Hatsune Miku is Japanese voice synthesizer (Hatsune Miku is not ai) and it's Japanese chapter
Hatsune Miku is also known for miku rhythm games (project diva series and project sekai) so her coming to festival fits
I really hope we will get the song "the instense voice of hatsune miku" since it's popular hard song, and i could see it being a cool chart, suggest checking the song out
But yeah, this is just my opinion and i hope they have done the collab well
Oh I know! I'm a Miku fan, I certainly wasn't complaining about her season, and I'm gonna be buying her Festival Pass asap :D
@@DanRockProductions Same here :D
I just wanted to clear things up just in case if anyone is confused about her
Wish you good night/day!!
You as well! Enjoy the new season!! :)
@@DanRockProductionsi absolutely will
This is the season i am most excited about
I haven't played a lot of festival because there hasn't been a lot of songs i like (not bad songs, just not for me) so i am really happy
And i am just big miku fan so this will be so much fun
I seriously hope we get pro vocals someday. I miss being able to just plug a mic in and sing for a bit.
Pro-Vocals and Pro-Drums being an option with the new local multiplayer would be such a cool addition. Would be great for casuals, longtime rhythm game fans, karaoke fans, everyone
I hope too. Even with local multiplayer coming to ps and Xbox in season 7 pro vocals and prop drums is totally needed so we won’t have 2 people playing actual instruments then your two other friends just holding controllers
Remember your words !!!
@@DanRockProductions Pro Drums have been confirmed to come out, alongside with Instruments as Backblings or Pickaxes. I hope they come out the next season in two days.
Hopefully Year 2 brings Pro Drums and Pro Vocals. Their recent announcement of local multiplayer is very exciting and it looks to be one step closer to being a legit Rock Band game lol.
Pro vocals we might have to do something similar to karaoke 😂
the thing that keeps me from really hoping is that they'd have to retroactively add them to EVERY song, and that leaves me uncertain cause.. well there's SO MANY SONGS
to be fair, battle royale anniversaries are also very meh, so is not like epic doesn't care just for festival's anniversary
Fair point
I’m kinda disappointed that we only got 3 Snoop Dogg songs as jam tracks
Me too :(
Hopefully they'll add more down the road, despite his season being over
@ yeah like Another Part of Me that was featured in the Remix:The Finale live event
Worst season ever 😂
@@raptorrodger that goes to Karol G fam
on a barely related note, i think i know what i'm going to absolutely WHALE OUT on this tuesday (i may or may not be absolutely addicted to everything hatsune miku)
The game is amazing but I think they need to shine more light on it.
Some people believe it or not aren’t even aware it exists or that it’s a Guitar Hero / Rock Band successor.
Even saying something like “from the creators of Rock Band” would be good enough to give people an idea of what this mode is.
Agreed!
We need more stages like someone's backyard party or in a mall
I have a theory that since we didn’t get the Dr Dre and snoop songs as jam tracks like “next episode” for the snoop season is because there’s going to be a Dr Dre season soon👀
they needa add the king of pop michael jackson in the festival pass + billie jean emote and the lean and many jam tracks
That would be legendary. I do know the Jackson estate is difficult to license from, but if any company can do it, it's Epic!
Yes that would be legendary after this theme is over because it's Japan theme
That would be amazing! Though I don't know if Epic could/would do it especially with the allegations of MJ, though I hope they do bring him.
Being a rocket racing player and enjoyer of rocksmith 2014 all I can say is feels bad,Festival guys got something to acknowledge it, we got nothing for the 1 year anniversary and rocksmith studio closed and pushed out a update that broke it.
My condolences about Rocksmith :(
That game deserved so much better
Watching this video makes me kinda realise how dry Fortnite festival is
We really do need a shakeup
We need a community poll to shake up the music genre for when new tracks get added, we don't need anymore Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park or Sum 41
@@skyneko136Amen!!
I want more animations depending on the song. The same 2-3 animations are getting so annoying to me I hate playing guitar on festival mode and my character violently throws their head in circles no matter what song or tempo it’s on 😭😭😭😭
No one speaks ill of the miku
I think the local multiplayer announcement is a step in the right direction for what you're asking for. And Pro Drums/Vocals would also add ALOT more to the game variety. I think its only a matter of time till this game gets some really cool updates
Fingers crossed for Pro-Drums. All they gotta do is flip a switch, all of the charts already have Pro-Drum data
I really hope this game mode doesn’t die, I remember being so happy playing the beginning of the 1st season
Festival just needs a real shakeup to get some much needed attention and consistent players.
I’ve been waiting for a solo jam stage where I can control all four instruments like Fuser or DropMix. That’s the main reason I’ve been collecting Jam Tracks tbh.
I’m not sure if we’re ever going to get pro-vocals as that’s not been leaked yet unlike pro drums and some songs just straight up don’t have vocals such as Sandstorm or the Rocket Racing tracks. Unless if they just ignore those tracks, what would they replace a microphone with? Maybe they’re waiting to get that figured out so that they can release both pro-vocals and drums 🤷♂️.
Lastly, I really hope we get new animations. The new ones for season 6 are pretty good and more realistic compared to season 1, so hopefully we get more of that to replace the old animations. The crowd animations also need to be completely revamped and have more variety.
Something they really need is a practice mode similar to beat saber where you can skip to a certain part of the song and play from there. I’m tired of having to go through 2-4 minutes of easy stuff just to get a single chance at nailing the solo.
@ That too, but I didn’t want my comment to be too long. There’s also so much other stuff I would suggest for the game.
We absolutely need a Fuser mode, that would be a really awesome use of jam tracks
EPIC! Give me my Slipknot festival pass and my soul is yours!
I hope The Kagamine Twins are in the Item Shop.
I’m hoping for the disappearance of hatsune miku or the intense voice of hatsune miku, or just any cosmo song since he is my favorite vocaloid producer
Love how I just saw this video and then realised again that they announced local multiplayer for ps and xbox which is amazing. Time to invite the boys over every day just I do hope the support for pro vocals and prop drums happen soon cause I don’t want half my friends playing actual instruments while the others can only play on controller
i love all your videos but this one was amazing man keep it up .
Much appreciated, thanks for watching :D
The thing they need the most is genre variety, practice mode, more professional and dedicated staff to be hired by epic so that the festival community can get good charts and fun songs. Other than that maybe ranked festival so everytime you play the game it felt more rewarding as your rank goes up by getting new songs whether it’s licensed or epic originals
I've heard no one talk about this at all and maybe it's just a me thing, but I noticed midway through this festival season, the ability to use emotes during instrument breaks in songs was disabled. It seems to be this way on all consoles as I tried it on both Xbox and switch. Am I crazy? Is there a setting to fix this? Was this ever announced in patch notes or something?
1 big problem with the game modes is that they have unified the daily quest XP outside of Save the World. Whilst it allows everyone a fair chance to gain XP in the game modes they love, it ends up resulting in Battle Royale being the only game mode where it's worth doing daily quests, especially since Rocket Racing's quests take forever to do (and they wonder why that game mode died).
Local multiplayer was just announced, so hopefully we’ll be on track for pro drums and pro vocals soon.
I just want my Weezer festival pass bro
Oh my god that'd be incredible lol
Pinkerton definitely deserves to be represented in Festival
I'm excited to be able to play together with my siblings in local co-op mode, something that other rhythm games don't allow. I'm really looking forward to it.
I hope they add more nirvana songs
Gimme the Bleach version of About A Girl pls Harmonix lol
We didn't even get the Return of Tidy! Which makes the Tidy Boogie Bomb & Dogghouse Sledge with a Mixture of Tidy Teasing thing Pointless.
Real Talk thou it's wild to me how we are one year into festival yet there still isn't a offline mode. To me that seems like the easiest addition.
That's also a huge downside. Eventually, years from now, people are gonna be unable to access the jam tracks that they've paid for unless they add an offline mode
@@DanRockProductions Facts not only that, a game like this shouldn't just be a strictly online game. Make no sense
Hopefully talented mice are the next season star after hatsune miku
Festival definitely needs to up their game on the other genre of songs cause we barely have any country. And some of the choices need to be a bit better in some regard cause some songs dont work for this type of mode
Also quick question but what do ya think of the Red Hot Chili Pepper songs we got this week?
Bangers! Hopefully we get some more, would love Dani California as a RB1 throwback
Rap and modern pop music just largely isn't suited for rhythm gameplay that's engaging
The reason Guitar Hero and Rock Band worked so well is because the actual music was conducive to challenging and satisfying charts. The fact that vocals are the only thing remotely engaging thing to play on a lot of these tracks, while lead and bass are just a bunch of sustains, further proves this point
I think it's still has life in it it gets a lot of updates and a good bit of players i just want them to do more with it
When I play festival solo I just wish I could pick my AI bandmates, I know it's picky but it's just something I would like
That's one of my favorite features of the later Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, it would be a great feature in Festival as well. I'm sick of seeing the gumball machine and unicorn every time lol
A solid new update.
Part of me thinks they wanted to do a lot more with snoop but some of his collaborators like Eminem or dre entirely objected to licensing
I wish we knew what was going on with Em's licensing thing. His concert premiered the game mode, he has emotes in the game, skins in the game, yet... zero Festival tracks
@@DanRockProductions the rumor currently is that the main reason he hasn't allowed the release of his jam tracks is cause eminem objects to the lipsyncing of his songs by people other than himself. even in guitar hero live you can't see the rapper character singing along
I've actually seen that rumor flying around, and it's really the only thing that makes sense. Such a strange stipulation to have, considering his voice is super iconic, so everyone would KNOW it's him, regardless of what skin is enunciating the lyrics
Its gonna be hilarious if years from now we are gonna have people calling themselves Festival OGs Flexing the nanner jammer and the star aura oh my god😭
Doesnt have much to do with the video itself, but its a thought ive had since the free rewards/ auras havent returned
I just barely got the banana guitar on my acc, then I realized it was my friend's account I was doing since they were busy and I needed XP for them _😭😂_ I really do hope for another fruit themed instrument though!
That's a really funny thought lol
I see what you mean but to me I still have a lot of fun on Fortnite festival, it’s also just very accessible to be honest. like I own guitar hero games on my Wii but they don’t work as well
At the end of the day, that's what matters. I'm glad you're having fun with the genre!
Local multiplayer announcement
I saw, that's huge
@@DanRockProductions you could say massive....
Bro said that festival didn't get much for the 1 year anniversary meanwhile Lego had nothing
Lego literally got an entirely new game mode
Fr snoop needs to stream in fortnite mainly in festival like IMAGINE snoop squared
Best enjoyment I get out of Festival is playing with a DDR pad as it's easily possible on Hard and under. Since those charts only use 4 lanes and no triple notes until expert, but lift notes are weird as you can't simply move your figures out of the way but you have to move your away from the pad. Vocals are the easiest to play using the least amount of lift notes and drums being the hardest needing a lot of double notes and lifts at the same time so you gotta jump way more. With the other two instruments being in the middle of those two for difficulty.
That's a really interesting way to play! Glad to hear you're enjoying it on dance pad :)
Pro Lead player discrimination is how I describe this game
Honestly I think I see you point about epic not caring but they aren’t giving up when they give up you will know just a look a rocket racing waiting 6 months for a update just to get like 5 new stages
They did snoops season so dirty
I dont really play festival, how come this 1:52 isn't a good chart?
Terrible amount of split chords, and overdrive activations for the best point squeezes are in really difficult spots because of that
7:34 miku isnt exactly out of nowhere,
1. we have japanese themed season and miku is well japanese
2. miku is a big fucking deal in rythm games
I meant moreso that we've never had Vocaloid representation in FN yet (to my knowledge), so to give her a whole season was random. I'm excited for her season tho, I'm a big Miku fan
The only problem is the songs they add. There needs to be more challenging songs and they should also add more game modes
I’m quite annoyed with how hard they dropped the ball with Snoop’s jam tracks. There’s only four of them, and three of those are just features. Gin n’ Juice, The Next Episode, Nuthin’ But A G Thang… if they weren’t willing to let a few expletives slide then why choose Snoop Dogg to headline the season? Even clean versions would be fine.
@@Rhyciz The lack of rap this season in general was strange, but we def needed more Snoop
that's how most of the "headliners" are treated besides I think the weeknd, lady gaga and metallica. for the past few seasons the face of the season has barely gotten anything
@pixxelz2893 it's very unfortunate
I’m convinced the charts were made by AI.
They were charted by humans, which makes their quality even more questionable :(
Fortnite is missing out on no Sonic Adventure 2 music (or just Sonic tracks in general :P)
ROLLIN' AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND
At home I call this "Fortnite DDR" lol! But maybe I'm onto something. I loved it at first but every time I go on it there's songs I don't care for
I enjoyed the festival only the first 3 and karol G season I just wanted to buy all her skins I agree with you
Don’t wanna be rude, but for your sub genre cash cow of a fortnite mode to recieve this much care and support is more than enough. If I was fan of festival I would recognize the game is far from dead and be grateful. These modes take focus from other modes that are arguably more compelling yet this receives the most support of all sub modes. All modes suffer from spreading epic thin to update all these features and we are so spoiled so I recognize that as a BR fan. I guess I’m just a little salty when it comes to lego fortnite and ballistics, because I love these sub games but they don’t get the same support/ care and don’t feel like an absolute chore when I’m forced to play them to complete a pass. Such linear guitar hero gameplay can only go so far the fact that they can keep that fresh with new songs and new passes for this sub mode is truly impressive and I would be grateful
You see, if it was just Epic themselves working on it, I would agree. But Harmonix, the studio who invented both Guitar Hero and Rock Band are working on it, and with 20 years of experience in the genre they created, I expect more from them
@ Everyone is feeling the starve for content so I hear you, but to have a full dedicated studio to produce for fortnite and doesn’t deliver blows my mind. Festival would thrive and I would be more inclined to play if guitar/ drum/ mic support came around. Also fortnite will always cater to its casual audience more times than not which is so frustrating especially with the time investment you put in and not to mention money. As a super hardcore BR fan we suffer similar problems thousands of wins and like 1K+ skins in my locker playing all 7 years I see it across all modes it feel like they kinda shit in the hands of their most dedicated player base by adding only things that a casual players can enjoy while simultaneously negating/ diminishing the want to get better because either that skill ceiling isn’t raised for a more hardcore fanbase or an item comes out that we exploit for 2 months straight destroying a skilled meta
I have my thoughts for Year 1 of Festival, and it is pretty much solid... until the Karol G which is where things get bumpy.
The placement from #1 to #6 are as followed for me; Metallica, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Karol G, Snoop Dogg and The Weeknd. Why did I placed The Weeknd at #6? Well, I was very much a newbie in Fortnite in Festival Season 1 and was more focused on BR than anything else. That sort of changed around late half. Metallica is AWESOME and I got to know and listen to HEAPS more of their songs (I only knew Enter Sandman prior to it). Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish, I love electronic, dance and pop + I have been Just Dance for well over 10 years now.
Karol G and Snoop Dogg, yeah... I have issues about them and that is both of these seasons felt stretched and have quite a low Jam Tracks count from these artists. Looking at the Hatsune Miku season, we are um... we are up for another one of them and her season was originally going to be for NewJeans before they decided to hit the lawsuit on their label. Definitely missed opportunities there, but hey... we can play local multiplayer on it now. Would've loved to see Ievan Polkka, PoPiPo or Love Ward - that is the only ones I know of her due to Just Dance. I honestly hate how forced this new season will feel and BR has already gotten wild with Skibidi Toilet, Johnny Silverhand, Baymax and even Godzilla.
My thoughts on the Snoop Dogg season, I dislike it. The low Jam Track count from him, and the season being more generic makes it feel like they made this season to pair with CSREMIX. The reason why it worked with Metallica was because it felt PERFECT with the theme of the BR season at the time and it only felt stretched at the end when we got Fall Guys maps here in Fortnite... that definitely flopped in trying to get those Fall Guys players to play Fortnite. Snoop Dogg as a season felt too generic and would've been better to give it to the artist that hasn't got ANY Jam Tracks that we got to play initially from the Big Bang, yes - Eminem. I know he's got like 4 character cosmetics and heaps of other goodies, but what is wrong with one additional one. The Epic employees really seem to like him just as equally as Marshmello. It would've also made the Platinum Event more interesting... but no, we got celebrated with recolours and 3 new songs, and I do not like The Weeknd's one. Dancing in the Flames, yeah I am torching his stage. If we had The Next Episode or Gin & Juice, I would place him a little bit higher than Karol G. If there's one thing I like about his season, it is definitely the ability to see the song title, artist and sections. The Music Pass, done in not even a week. What a weird transition from Event Pass to Season Pass format. There's nothing wrong with Snoop Dogg's music or himself, it is just that his season has done dirty that I would've just picked a different artist. Considering that his season started in the 1 month long CSREMIX... that is an overshadowed failure compare to Metallica.
I hope that after Hatsune Miku, we get some good artists. Going from Rock to Latin Pop to Hip-Hop to now J-Pop is quite a genre clashing whiplash. I would LOVE to see Charli XCX, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Katy Perry or even Taylor Swift. Of course, give them a SOLID Jam Tracks count.
How will the miku season be forced? It fits the theme of the br season
What is there to celebrate on festivals past???
All I ask for is more Breaking Benjamin
And Kesha. Kesha too.
I was damn disappointed as well for the anniversary... But the most annoying thing imo is the fact that u can't just practice some parts of charts (ex: paradise city lead solo), I don't want to play the whole song just to get to that specific part.. And the tournament was really cool but we need it also in non-pro mode :p
I'm hoping we can get some official tournaments from Epic that have both pad and pro branches!
still waiting for pro drums lmao
Why haven’t they brought back the metallica skins because they’ve brought back the other festival icon skins but no Metallica because I was short on v bucks for the metallica puppet master skins and I really wanted the skins
im gonna say something harsh, but im able to elaborate more and have a calm conversation and exchange of arguments if you are respectful
im very sorry to say, but festival isn't made for you. it isnt made for people like the lore hero quartet. basically, if you expect this to be Rock Band 5, you will need to wait while Fortnite makes the "My First Rock Band" for everybody else
as a company, who wants to get money, making things like pro tracks that only a small handful of players will be able to play thanks for the need for a plastic guitar are more of a bonus, they are focused on getting Joe Battle Royale to play the game, and someone like XxFret_DestroyerxX can be put on a secondary focus
you shouldn't expect the game to always cater to rhythm veterans with "the hardest track avaliable on history"
there are going to be easy tracks. because for Joe B. R., "oh my god, this song i used to love is in the game, let me play it"
if this was a standalone game without the Fortnite branding, id be agreeing with everything you say. but unfortunately, we are talking about Fortnite.
You spitting facts
Wow, this is one of the most respectful opinionated responses I've gotten in a long time. I really do appreciate you being respectful, even if I disagree. So first things first, thanks for having a level head, even if you weren't a fan of what I had to say. That genuinely does mean a lot to me. As a result, I'm going to attempt to be as cordial as possible in my response.
I totally understand the standpoint of trying to get casuals into the game. The pad charts on Easy to Hard have been perfect for introducing newcomers, and at the end of the day, introducing newcomers into the 5-fret genre is **exactly** what I want to see come from Festival. The more people who play the game and enjoy it, the bigger of a thriving rhythm fanbase we will have, encompassing multiple generations of gamers.
I also agree that the game NEEDS easier songs to keep causal/pad only players interested in the game, we're 100% on the same page there. There's an incredibly vocal part of the RB/GH fanbase that dislikes FN Festival specifically because of the lack of difficult heavy metal charts. I've personally been vocal about how much I appreciate they've been able to adapt some of the pop-pier songs into decent Pro-Lead/Bass charts, and at the end of the day, the old RB/GH games aren't going anywhere, so that side of the fanbase can still happily play them. Hell, Rock Band 4 is still being supported to this day!
Here's where I disagree:
Festival absolutely NEEDS to keep ALL of their audiences in mind here. While, yes, introducing newcomers is the right move overall, Festival indeed needs a hardcore playerbase that's willing to scorechase and compete at levels they're comfortable with. Yes, that includes on difficult, Pro-Lead/Bass charts.
To put it simply, Festival has HELLA competition out there, especially in the free-to-play rhythm gaming scene. If you're playing on PC, which a decent chunk of Fest players are, there's Clone Hero, World Tour Definitive, YARG, and countless emulated options such as GH2DX, Rock Band 2 and 3 DX, Rock Band 4 DX, etc.
Technically, Harmonix owns the patent on the rhythm highway that all of these fan projects are using, but Harmonix aren't the type to DMCA others, as the entire identity of Guitar Hero itself was ripped off from a Konami arcade game to begin with.
If Epic doesn't do anything to keep the hardcore audience interested in Festival, the fanbase will simply go elsewhere, which would set up the chain reaction of people discovering the genre through Fest, then just... leaving to play Clone Hero or YARG. That's not good for sustainability in a playerbase.
The hardcore crowd, like me, are also the ones that spend the most amount of money on the game. I've bought every single Festival Pass, barring Karol G's, and own probably over 1/3rd of the Jam Tracks in the game. The casuals who are just dipping their toes into the water to test the genre aren't typically going to spend money like that right out the gate for a mode they're unsure of.
At the end of the day, Epic needed to do more for the anniversary, as while the newcomers certainly ate well, the numbers for the hardcore audience likely plummeted after they realized they weren't getting any goodies for staying loyal.
Again, thank you for being chill in your response. I hope mine didn't come off like I was being a jerk. I'm just really passionate about this genre, and I wanna see Festival become the best it can be, for everyone!
@@DanRockProductions thanks for also being respectful. I actually thought your first lines were sarcastic because, since English is not my first language, I thought that I may have offended you with something that I couldn't grasp (it's currently midnight 30 here), but closer to the end I saw you were honest.
as for a "Joe Battle Royale" myself, I tried dipping into the other f2p/emulated alternatives. what do they fail, at least, partially by the community, it's that charts are not made for gamepad (as someone who uses the standard controller layout on festival, which has been pretty comfortable and nice to play), they are rather expected to be player or on keyboard or on a Riffmaster* whenever I see notes coming in the same time on the first and second lanes, I cry, knowing that my dpad can't go both sides at the same time.
besides that, they usually expect you to know how to strum, which I don't. luckily, tap mode exists on the main 2 I tested (YARG and Clone Hero)
I would have leaned more into your side of "there are more options" if playing the fan versions was a nice experience for me. since it isn't, I used my egocentric view of "no way casuals are going to drop festival to play something that isn't balanced for them"
I can totally see your point in regards for "less veterans, less overall marketing for the mode, less casuals", and I do agree that veterans shouldn't be forgotten.
one of the not sent versions for the comment actually were a bit more harsh on the veterans side, but I decided to tone it down since i wanted to be respectful.
I think Fortnite is polishing stuff in the background to bring this side of the community better. one of the devs for the new local multiplayer mode said that they have been working on it for over 6 months, so I'm pretty sure they know their audience and what they want, just that they are radio silent about it. they could say something like "we are working on pro drums and practice mode! stay tuned for more details" and the crowd would cheer a lot
(lemme reread your comment before finalizing it)
Thank you again for being so kind in your response!
Before I bought my NEO S, I used to use the tap modifier and gamepad controls on Clone Hero and YARG. If you wanna give them another shot, try mapping "Up" on the d-pad to "Red Fret." This allows you to hit both red and green at the same time :)
So:
Left = Green
Up = Red
X/Square = Yellow
Y/Triangle = Blue
and finally, B/Circle = Orange
This control scheme won't work for EVERY song, sadly, but for lower difficulty songs that use chords, it'll do the trick!
I've heard whispers of a pad mode potentially coming to one of these games, but I'm not certain yet sadly
@@DanRockProductions this is actually very simple and yet I haven't really thought about it lol
I think I may retry with this configs later (if I do remember lol)
I usually also have some stuff with the 3/4/5th lines, but I just injected in my mind that "you will have to use your full thumb. that or go to the shoulder buttons, which you're not used to" so I kinda went with the flow. just hope that charters don't mix things too hard lol
too be fair fortnite will not make as much money if they did stuff for festival because compared to battle royal people aren't in festival so they dont do Anniversary stuff for festival
They have just lowered progress on all of the new modes from 2023, Lego is doing the best, Rocket Racing is sadly super dead and then also Festival is lowering on its updates too
i pretty much stopped after metallica season. i feel like that was the last good season
Honestly... Yeah. I liked the Snoop season from an aesthetic and song point of view, but the bugs and lack of care really make me miss the days of Metallica in Festival
save yourself
Im so mad the Anniversary Weekend Didn't Actually have all The Songs for Free And Not Even Like Oh no Battle pass Songs no they actually didn't Have Item shop Songs Like The Middle Or Catina Band
The Middle got fixed iirc, while the ones that aren’t part of the permanent rotation were left off; at the moment, that’s Streets Ignite, the FNCS songs, Cantina Band, Never Back Down, (after the anniversary) All I Want for Christmas is You, and (confusingly) Poker Face
Festival doesn't receive anything to celebrate its past because it didn't survive and Rocket Racing didn't too because of that Lego Fortnite kinda got a celebration as people receieved Lego Birthday celebration packages saying to open it on their Birthday which teased their next update being storm king related also Fortnite has a celebration of the past with the OG game mode because that was really special for OG'S like me I mean really special
Why didn't you use punctuation in your reply, this is really hard to follow?
Festival is very much still alive and well. They have had thousands of concurrent players this season
@DanRockProductions oh I don't know why I didn't use punctuation but I get what you mean
Rocket racing is pretty much dead, they cancelled support. But festival is still getting updates and new seasons so it’s clearly doing much better. And they did celebrate the past with the one year anniversary stuff and making all the jam tracks accessible for the weekend.
@Rhyciz I meant Festival's celebration was not as big as BR's 1 year celebration in September
festivals the best from the first 3 modes, rocket racing is dead, and lego is lego
honestly, Festival hasn't been good since season 4. the lack of actual good music has been the main factor, as well as countless bugs due to months of neglect. we haven't had lead animations for like 2 or 3 seasons because they've just been broken. i saw the new lead guitar solo animation a few times before it was just gone in a following update. thinking about taking a break from Festival because we can't even get the bare minimum, let alone what we deserve from a mode like this.
where's the on-screen streak counter? why do they use lift notes in idiotic spots sometimes for difficulty instead of what it was intended for? why won't they fix the obscenely increased frequency of the media streaming error? it happens mostly when i play with others and less when i'm solo. why have we gone almost 2 whole seasons without rock, with the exception of a few weeks at the end of this season and last?
idk bro, music taste is subjective
I’ll be honest I never liked festival (kinda weird I’m getting recommended this vid then but hi). It was always a little slow, not to mention I’m not a fan of the songs AND prefer 4k gameplay over 5k, so it sucks having the highest difficulty behind it. Also, jam tracks are EXPENSIVE, $5 for one song is horrible. Plus, even if these issues were fixed, there’s not really any incentive to play it over something like Osu or even mobile rhythm games like Arcaea. Honestly though, you mentioned epic seems to have forgotten/stopped caring about festival and I’d argue that for all the modes as they all just seem half baked to me. Hope epic starts doing something about it.
Thanks for clicking on this video despite not being super into the game mode! That means a lot :)
I just want spanish music
2:31 why do you have SO MANY fans 😭😭😭
Did you notice how good he is at festival
@@fomrehkuda yea but what’re his graphics at
Performance mode gives 10 fans
Normal gives 200
Why does he have thousands…
Playing on PC, everything is on it's highest graphical settings at 1080p if I recall
@@DanRockProductions does that sacrifice any frames? I mean if you’re just playing festival wouldn’t you want more frames?
@@Whiskers--5 my monitor caps at 75hz, and with v-sync I typically don't get any frame drops, so I don't mind maxing out the game's graphic settings and making it look pretty if my rig can handle it.
I did get drops when the mode first came out last year, but I expected that, and it's been optimized!
After a while it has gotten pretty stale…
Snoop season was such an L. We all hated on Karol G too much. Karol had way more of her songs added than Snoop. Karol had way more earnable free rewards. Wristband quests as well as colour option for a festival pass instrument when you level up past the pass. Snoop had none of that. The theme of rap and hiphop was also thrown quickly out of the window after remix ended. No Dr. Dre? No 50Cent? No Ice Cube? Every rap/hiphop song i requested ended up being an emote instead. A skibidi toilet collab but no Little Big - Skibidi jam track? So many missed opportunities this season as always.
Snoop is also the only one without an unreal creative concert since Metallica. "But he was in the Remix live event and part of the Remix battle royale". Yeah okay and all he did was in battle royale be a spaghetti coded npc with reskinned mythics. That did not beat the entirely new Metallica mythic we had in Wrecked. And Metallica also gave free rewards in rocket racing too. And the live event with Snoop doesn't matter because you know who else was in it too? Juice WRLD and he has received way more jam tracks than Snoop as well as free rewards and emotes. They didn't even bother bringing back Tidy like ???. At this point they should've just done a JUICE WRLD Festival season where they would've had a 3rd skin(Festival pass). Speaking of Festival Pass,the snoop ones are a massive L. Can't turn off the cellshading on any of them,especially the instruments. What if you wanna match match them to a purple or yellow skin? Oh well,can't really cuz of cellshading. Honestly the worst set off instruments. I am really not capping when i say this is the worst Festival season. Lack of free rewards,theme thrown out of the window quicker than ever and a bad Festival Pass. At the start of Snoops season I even had the notes freezing bug occur a lot of times which made it impossible to play any songs. Honestly if we dont get an entirely new festival mode next season i wouldn't be surprised if Mikus season is gonna be worse than Karol or Snoop.
I do really miss the wristband quests. I genuinely hope they bring them back this season
Only the stw buyers who bought in the beta can get free vbucks
Yeah no I very much agree with the Take On Me opinion... That chart was ass to full clear for no reason at all :(
they put more effort into modern save the world than fortnite festival LOL
Yeah, no
Can you quit calling gutair hero only players "rhythm gamers" unless I see them click circles or bash their keyboards they aren't those
Bro what? Guitar Hero predates Osu by 2 years lmao
@DanRockProductions ddr predates by 9, beatmania predates by 12, arguably the 2 biggest series to launch rhythm games to main stream, gh ofc helped with it being a home console game not an arcade game
@@Jordanisokatnth nearly every barcade in the country has a GH Arcade machine and Guitar Hero was the first video game to reach a billion dollars in sales. Guitar Hero is as much of a rhythm game as OSU or DDR. I say that as a fan of both of those as well
@DanRockProductions yeah but when you talk about "rhythm games" in this video they only play Gutair Hero, Clone Hero, Rock band, etc. That's like of I'm talking about Mario I say "these platformer gamers have figured out an insane clip to save more frames"
@@Jordanisokatnth not all GH fans only play 5-fret. Matter of fact, I've been playing a ton of taiko no tatsujin recently, and I play DDR at every arcade that has it. I don't speak for everyone, but Festival is probably the most accessible rhythm game out there rn. There's also plenty of strategy with highway-based five fret stuff. Watch the tournament, you'll see how important specific phrase squeezing and tactical overdrive use is
Its a good mode but br and lego players never give ut a chance.
Also i swear to fucking god you best not be dissing miku she is a fucking queen even if she is just the musician version of a v tuber we mikusicians do not care cuz are world is always growing and its all her's 🩵🥬(i couldnt find an emoji for mikus iconic veggie the LEEK so uhh
(lettuce?/cabbage?/spinach?) will have to suffice) if miku was a real huma i would gladley let her rule the world has the global dictator of music
(yeah im a miku nerd get over it 🩵🪽)
Absolutely not dissing Miku! I'm a big Vocaloid fan! I was just saying her datamining/leak/announcement kinda came out of nowhere. A very pleasant surprise to be sure tho! Looking forward to buying her Festival Pass :)
They have just lowered progress on all of the new modes from 2023, Lego is doing the best, Rocket Racing is sadly super dead and then also Festival is lowering on its updates too